A who’s who of the Irish comedy and entertainment world played a major benefit gig, entitled The Entertainment Party Conference, in The Olmypia Theatre on July 15 1990. Money raised went to the Simon Community and a new ‘Comedy Fund’ to help subsidise improv and writing workshops for up and coming comics.
Here are two pictures of the event that have never been published before.
The first shows Philip Chevron (The Radiators of Space/The Pogues), Ronnie Drew (The Dubliners), Terry Woods (Sweeney’s Men/Steeleye Span/The Pogues) and Paul Brady.
(c) Billy Magra collection. Scanned up by Carax.
The second picture shows the closing ceremony and the crowd includes Terry Woods, Ronnie Drew, Ardal O’Hanlon, Dermot Carmody,Shay Healy, Michael Redmond, Barry Murphy, Gerry Ryan, Dave Fanning, Agnes Bernelle, Niall MacAnna, Billy Magra and a few others.
(c) Billy Magra collection. Scanned up Carax.
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